The Ufo Phenomenon and the Birth of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Religions

By Robert Iturralde

This book traces and explains the unsolved mysteries from unexplained archaeological findings to modern day supernatural religious phenomenon . The connection between the three major religious beliefs and the ufo phenomenon. Is deeply explored . The most famous supernatural mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle , Big Foot , the Jersey Devil and the men in black are explained as creations of the Ufo Phenomenon . The purpose of these supernatural is to make us wonder , fright ,hope , and deceive . Scientists are still looking for extraterrestrials In all the wrong places . Alien life has been with us for thousands of years in forms of the supernatural , religious phenomena , myths and legends and now in modern times as the ufo phenomenon . I show why the ufo phenomenon is the creator of the supernatural and religion .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765227268

Robert Iturralde

Robert Iturralde was a proud member of the United States Air Force and has been researching UFOs since 1987. The year when, by accident, he found a book about UFOs in a flea market. After reading the book, he went to the New York Times to check the reports of hundreds of witnesses; shockingly the reports were based in real eyewit- ness sightings. His previous three books are: The UFO Phenomenon and the Birth of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Religions, A Treatise on Human Nature: Christian Saints, Historical Figures and the UFO Phenomenon, and Essay on the Theory of the Earth: Electromagnetism in UFOs and the Origin of Mass Extinctions and the Ice Ages. Mr. Iturralde is very active. He has participated in seventeen marathons, eleven triathlons and hundreds of running races. In his free time he likes to play chess and run. If you have any questions about the book you can contact him through e-mail at [e-mail].

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1 Unexplained Archeological Findings and Ancient Monuments

Chapter 2 A Short History of UFOs

Chapter 3 A Short History of Human Aviation

Chapter 4 The UFO Phenomenon and Natural Disasters

Chapter 5 Crop Circles and the UFO Connection

Chapter 6 The UFO Phenomenon and the Electromagnetic Effect in Cars and Electrical Appliances

Chapter 7 The Supernatural, Poltergeist, Ghosts and UFOs

Chapter 8 Big Foot, the Chupacabras (The Goatsucker), Other Weird Creatures and the UFO Connection

Chapter 9 The Mystery of Cattle Mutilation and the UFO Phenomenon

Chapter 10 The UFO Phenomenon in Legend and History

Chapter 11 Joan of Arc, The Supernatural and the UFO Phenomenon Connection

Chapter 12 Joseph Smith, the Supernatural, and the UFO Phenomenon

Chapter 13 The UFO Connection and the Men in Black

Chapter 14 The Bermuda Triangle, Vanishing Planes and People, and the UFO Connection

Chapter 15 The Miracle of Fatima and the UFO Connection

Chapter 16 The UFO Phenomenon and the Birth of the Jewish Religion

Chapter 17 The UFO Phenomenon and the Birth of the Christian Religion

Chapter 18 The UFO Phenomenon and the Birth of the Moslem Religion

Chapter 19 What are UFOs and Where Do They Come From?

Chapter 20 The UFO Phenomenon and the Future of the Jewish, Christian and Moslem Religions

Chapter 21 Prophecies and Final Warnings to Mankind

Chapter 22 Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Dedicated to my wife and in memory of my father and sister

INTRODUCTION

I started researching this book in 1987. The UFO phenomenon has been a major news story in the world in the past 55 years. UFOs have been seen on every continent and country of this planet. There have been witnesses from every race, culture and religion, and all social, economic and intellectual levels. The most reliable witnesses—like police officers, the military, and the government—are on record with the most amazing sightings.

I first became interested in the UFO phenomenon when I bought an old book about UFOs at a flea market and read about incident reports by U.S. Air Force pilots. The most amazing case was that of Capt. Thomas Mantell, who died on January 7, 1948, chasing a UFO. I decided to check the New York Times for an article about the incident. To my surprise, I found one article with details about the event. However, the Air Force denied it had taken place, saying that Capt. Mantell died while chasing the planet Venus. This incident is elaborated on in Chapter 2.

I discovered that many people, including UFO researchers, don’t know that the UFO phenomenon is the source of religion, folklore, myth, and the supernatural. In this book, I explain this relationship. My job seems easier than that of philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753), who tried to prove that the world ceased to exist after one walks away. I may be wrong in my conclusions, but the subject needs to be examined.

Robert Iturralde

CHAPTER 1

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UNEXPLAINED ARCHEOLOGICAL

FINDINGS AND ANCIENT MONUMENTS

We find ourselves faced by powers that are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base of operations is at present unknown to us.

— Dr. Wernher Von Braun, 1959, on the deflection from orbit of a U.S. satellite.

T he possibility that the earth has been visited by an advanced extra-terrestrial civilization was seriously considered by the late astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan. Throughout the archeological and anthropological history of our planet, scientists have found items that only fit the description of out of this world.

DISCS IN ARCHEOLOGICAL HISTORY

In 1967, a Russian magazine named Sputnik published an article about a Chinese archeologist claiming spaceships had visited the earth 12,000 years ago. The revelations were so shocking, said the article, that the Peking Academy of Prehistory had banned its publication. The work, entitled Groove writing relative to spaceships, which as recorded on the discs, existed 12,000 years ago, explores 716 odd-looking stove discs that were found in caves in the Bayan Jara Ula Mountains on the border of China and Tibet. The Grooves are puzzling to scholars because they look like UFOs, which we think of only as a modern phenomenon.

England is very rich in Bronze Age artifacts that look like discs, cigars, and cloud-like designs very similar to UFOs. In various parts of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, archeologists have found Bronze Age engravings of discs with legs.

In a museum in Salzburg, Austria, is a perfect little cube of meteoric nickel-iron which is actually a form of stell that is about two inches square, though the opposing sides are somewhat convex or domed. It weighs about 28 ounces and has a specific gravity of 7.75. A precisely turned, deep groove or incision completely encircles it. The object has been examined endlessly by technicians and their conclusions are astonishing: they declare that because the components are nickel and iron, the object definitely was constructed by machine manufacture and came from a block of meteorite. However, the most amazing thing is that it was found in a block of coal taken from a Mioceno stratum 65 million years ago.

Most surprising are the disc and cigar-shaped designs of what today we call UFOs that have been found next to those of bison, bear and deer in prehistoric caves in Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, Les Trois Freres and Ussat. A cave in Altamira in Santander Province in Spain has the most remarkable collection of disc paintings. These designs are positioned across the sky on the ceiling with herds of bison cowering below. The drawings are disc-shaped with a flat bottom and a dome on top. Archeologists have found identical forms at Fort De Gaume 500 kilometers away in France’s Dordogne Province. The cave La Pasiega in Spain also has saucer-like designs similar to the UFOs seen by thousands.

The most convincing drawing is in the cave at Niaux in France. There are two discs, one with dotted lines that looks like a picture of an aircraft in flight. At the cave in Ussat is a painted object remarkably similar to the lunar module complete with ladder and antennas that stands on four crane legs. Beneath is an erect human figure.

Of course skeptics will say that there is nothing in this design, but if we accept the designs of bison, deer and antelope as real, why not the spaceship-like designs? The reason is simple: it is too much for modern man to accept the idea that we have been visited by extraterrestrials since prehistoric times. We must remember that the great philosophers, like Hume, Locke, and Descartes, have maintained that there is nothing in our ideas that are not also in our senses or perceptions. All of our ideas are a reflection of the material world. So where did prehistoric man get the ideas for designing saucer-shaped objects?

THE PYRAMIDS

Moreover, the most enigmatic stone configurations that defy explanation about technique, labor and forms of construction exist around the world. There are monuments of vast proportions that are a challenge to our modern engineers and technology, such as the pyramids in Egypt. The Great Pyramid is believed to have been built in 2,500 BC during the reign of Pharaoh of Cheops. The dimensions are breathtaking. It was built with approximately 2,300,000 stone building blocks weighing from three to seventy tons. The base covers 13 acres, which is the equivalent of eight square blocks in New York City.

Napoleon’s engineers believed the Pyramid of Cheops consisted of enough stone to build a wall around France. The Pyramid is big enough to contain all of the cathedrals of Rome, Milan, and Florence and still have room for the Empire State Building in New York and Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the English House of Parliament in London. It is calculated that there is more stone in the Pyramid than all the masonry used to build every church in England since the time of Christ.

The Cheops Pyramid was originally 485 feet tall. All the locomotives in the world could not pull the Pyramid because it weighs six and a half million tons. Some of the individual stones weigh up to one hundred tons. The stones are fitted so closely together that it is impossible to detect the line where they are joined. How these stones were raised has perplexed many scientists.

The Egyptians didn’t leave any record of the technology used to build the pyramids. The most popular theory is that workers slid the massive blocks up ramps onto the pyramid, but little evidence exists. The only written record came from the Greek historian Herodotus, who said it took 20 years and 100,000 men to build the Great Pyramids. The only problem is that he wrote this 2,000 years after they were built.

There are many considerations to take into account: How were the thousands of workers taken care of and fed? Where did they sleep? How were they transported? An army so vast requires supervisors, foremen and police.

We know that Egypt was not a big slaveholding society. How did they get enough people to hack out 2,600,000 giant blocks from the quarries? What kind of quarries were they? What kind of tools did they use? There was no dynamite or other explosives at that time.

After the rocks were quarried, how were they dressed? Dressing many of these stones would require a minimum pressure of two tons. How did primitive man get the necessary equipment to apply that kind of pressure? How did they get the stones to the building site?

Some historians believe that the Egyptians used ropes to pull those blocks of stone. Where did they get the ropes? Where did the Pharaoh find an architect who could design a building with such precise measurement? Historians say that three to one hundred tons were pushed over land on wooden rollers. Trees were chopped down, dressed out to logs and used as rollers under the blocks. It is a good theory except that there are no forests in Egypt. The Great Pyramid would have required 26 million wooden rollers. To import them would have required the largest fleet in history. Where did they get the wood to build such a fleet?

STONEHENGE IN ENGLAND

Another architectural mystery is the famous stone monument of Stonehenge, which is located about 75 miles south-southwest of London and eight miles north of Salisbury. It is a popular tourist attraction with nearly 200,000 visitors per year. Stonehenge was built with socalled bluestone, a separated kind of rock with a bluish color. Most bluestones are dolerite.

The site of the quarry is 240 miles away. Keep in mind that each stone weighs up to five tons. Stonehenge was built between 1900 and 1600 BC, a thousand or so years after the pyramids in Egypt. It was a few hundred years before the fall of Troy, and the Minoan civilization was flourishing.

Nobody knows the purpose of these stones or who built Stonehenge. Some think they were built for astronomical or religious purposes. The Druids came after they were built, and the prehistoric people left no evidence of their work.

Like the challenge to logic presented by the pyramids, many questions remain: How were these stones weighing up to five tons transported in a very irregular and hilly terrain? Where was the forest to provide the building wooden rollers? What kinds of tools were used to quarry the stone? How were the thousand of workers taken care of?

Some believe an enlightened man from Greece had them built. But who was he? Why don’t we know the name of the man who accomplished such a feat?

Where did prehistoric people get the ideas to build such monuments?

THE STONE PLATFORM OF BAALBEK IN LEBANON

Another puzzle is the stone Platform of Baalbek in Beirut, Lebanon, a gigantic terrace composed of stone blocks, most of them with sides more than 60 feet long and weighing up to 2,000 tons. It is located on a section of the Beirut-Homs railway line and road at a height of 3,760 feet.

The Platform is incredibly old and has no historical date. It is first mentioned in Assyrian writing under the name of Ba’li as early as 804 BC. The Greeks and Romans both made use of it. It is inconceivable that these stones were transported with wooden rollers or sledges. There is no technical aid in ancient time, or even a crane today, that can lift 2,000 tons.

THE RUINS OF SACSAYHUAMAN IN PERU

Another archeological site that defies rational explanation is the Ruins of Sacsayhuaman in Peru—or more exactly in Cuzco—in South America. The local archaeologists don’t think the Incas built this fortress of stone, situated at a height of 11,480 to 12,415 feet. The monolithic block weighs more than 100 tons; the ramparts are 18 feet high. The terrace wall is more than 1,500 feet long and 55 feet high. The rarified atmosphere makes it difficult to breathe. The rocks are well-polished stones that look as though they were cut out by a cheese knife.

Again, there are questions of who created these massive stones. To have built such immense structures in a terrain so elevated and irregular would have been a fantastic feat that the poor peasants who populated the area did not have the technology to accomplish.

In my opinion, most of the ancient civilizations of 5,000 to 6,000 years ago did not have the technology or the enlightenment to have created such massive structures. Who built them? I believe the answer is that we have been guided culturally, religiously, and historically to evolve from the lowest form by an ancient extraterrestrial civilization that is still around us but in different forms that are hard to understand by the vast majority of people.

CHAPTER 2

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A SHORT HISTORY OF UFOS

We are sending them out. Why shouldn’t someone be sending here? Just think, when Pioneer 10 finally leaves our solar system, it becomes our first UFO to all the other star systems.

— Dr. Margaret Mead, Anthropologist

T he best introduction to the subject of UFOs is by H.G. Wells in the beginning of the first chapter of The War of the Worlds , which he wrote in 1898. Later, in 1938, Wells adapted the book into the famous radio program that caused panic among listeners because they thought that Martians really had landed . The book begins:

No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the 20th century came the great disillusionment.

This introduction is excellent for the UFO sightings in modern times, but since the beginning of history, there has been evidence of sightings of what we now call UFOs or flying saucers.

UFOS IN ANCIENT TIMES

One very well known document from the times of the Egyptian King Thothmes III, who died about 1450 BC, is the Tulli Papirus. The report is compelling: In the year 22, third month of winter. The scribes of the house of life found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky. They went to the king to report it. Now after some days had passed, LO! They were more numerous than anything, and they were shining in the sky. The army of the king looked on, then, upon the circles went up higher and to the south. It was a marvel never occurred since in this land.

We see in this report that the witness is trying to explain something beyond the limits of his milieu, industrial and technological development. The famous Roman historian, Livy, reported phantom ships in the sky in 213 BC in Hadri, and an altar was also in the sky. In 216 BC, at Praenest, burning lamps fell from the sky. In 170 BC, at Lanupium on the Apian Way 16 miles from Rome, a remarkable fleet of ships was seen in the air. In 104 BC, A rumbling sound was heard in the sky over Italy. A pillar was seen to fall to earth. In day-time over Rome, a burning torch was seen in the air. In 234 BC at Rimini, three moons were seen while the Gauls invaded Italy.

In 223 BC portents occurred which threw the people of Rome into great fear. A river in Picenum had the color of blood. In Etruria, a good part of the heavens seemed to be on fire. In Ariminium, a light like the day blazed out at night. In many cities of Italy three moons became visible in the night time and in the Forum, a vulture perched for several days.

In 218 BC, Livy, reported in Book XXI-XXII, phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the district of Amitemym; in many places apparitions of men in shining clothing had appeared in the distance, but had not drawn near to anyone.

Lycosthenes also reported, The apparitions of ships were seen in the sky…dreadful earthquakes shook the ground. In that year Hannibal invaded Etruria and the Romans lost the battle at Trasimene.

Livy mentions in Book XXIV-X that amazing things were seen in the sky. Prodigies in large numbers were reported in that year. At Hadria an altar was seen in the sky and about it the forms of men in white garments. At Alba they said two suns were seen and at Fregellae that light had appeared in the night. In 163 BC at Capua, the sun was seen by night. At Forini, two suns were seen. The sky was on fire. In Cephoalonia, a trumpet seemed to sound from the sky. There was a rain of earth. A windstorm demolished houses and laid crops flat in fields. By night an apparent sun shone at Pisaurum. In 152 BC, in many places in Rome, apparitions in toga were seen; on approaching, they vanished from view.

Pliny writes, It is also reported that several suns were seen at midday at the Bosphorus and this lasted from dawn to sunrise. At Praeneste, a torch was seen in the sky. In 113 BC, a light from the sky by night, the phenomenon usually called ‘night suns,’ was seen in the consulship of Gaius Caecilius and Gnaeus Papirius and often on other occasions, causing apparent daylight in the night. (Pliny, Book II)

In 106 BC, an uproar in the sky was heard and javelins seemed to fall from heaven. In 100 BC, In the consulship of Lucius Valerius and Gaius Marios a burning shield scattering sparks ran across the sky at sunset from west to east. (Pliny, Book II, xxxlv)

In 93 BC, at Volsinii, flame seemed to flash from the sky at dawn. After it had gathered together, the flame displayed a dark grey opening and the sky appeared to divide. In the gaps, tongues of flame appeared. (Obsequens)

In 91 BC, at sunset a glove of fire in the northern region rushed across the sky emitting tremendous sound. In Spoletium, a gold-coloured fireball rolled down to the ground and, growing larger, rose from the earth towards the east becoming large enough to blot out the sun. (Obsequens, confirmed by Orosius)

As we can see, the names of what we call UFOs varies with the culture and stage of development of a particular society. In ancient times there were no flying machines and the only way to describe what was seen was with familiar words like flammable torches, shining shields, sun or moon apparitions, shining altars, and flying swords or ships. Ancient people believed that these were good or bad omens from the gods with hidden messages just as some people in modern times still believe that when there is an eclipse of the sun or moon, something bad is going to happen. Superstition and ignorance go hand-in-hand and haven’t changed for many people in the 21st century.

UFOS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD

Dio Cassius wrote in Book LVI in AD 9, The temple of Mars in the field of the same name was struck by lightening and many locusts flew into the city and were devoured by swallows, the peaks of the Alps seemed to collapse upon one another and to send up three columns of fire, the sky in many places seemed ablaze and numerous comets appeared at one and the same time, spears seemed to dart from the north and fall in the direction of Roman Camp. In AD 14, thus the sun suffered a total eclipse and most of the sky seemed to be on fire, glowing embers appeared to be falling from it, and blood-red comets were seen.

We see that the descriptions are close to what we call UFOs. Since ancients used words that were familiar to them, they could transcend their milieu or stage of development. Admiral Pliny, the great nature historian who died while trying to study the eruption of the Vesubios that buried Pompey and Herculano wrote in AD 79 in Historia Naturales, Book XL-XXLV, There are also meteoric lights that are only seen when falling, for instance one that ran across the sky in midday in full view of the public when Germanicus was giving a gladiatorial show. Of these are two kinds. One sort are called ‘lampades’ which means ‘torches’; the other ‘bolides’, ‘missiles’, that is the sort that appeared at the time of the disaster at Modena (when Decimus Brutus was besieged there by Anthony in 445 BC).

Ovid, who died in AD 18, wrote: In the middle of the night I saw the sun truly a glittering white.

We can’t say that these people were dreaming. These events were recorded by witnesses of great integrity like Plutarco, Pliny and Livy, and they described what they saw.

In AD 51, Three suns were seen during the consulship of the future Emperor Claudius when Cornelius Ofitus was his colleage. (Pliny)

In AD 60, Indeed we have been able to contemplate for six month that comet which appeared in the happy reign of Nero. (Seneca)

In AD 65, the Jews were oppressed by the Romans and there were portents and signs in the sky which prophets interpreted as omens of happiness instead of misfortune. Josephus wrote in War of the Jews, Book VI, Chapter V-3, Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet that continued a whole year, thus also before the Jew’s rebellion and before those commotions which preceded the war, when people were come in great crowds to the feast of unleavened bread, on the eighth day of the month Xanthicus and at the ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy house, that it appeared to be bright day-time, which light lasted for half-an-hour.

In AD